Amaze your friends with this easy magic trick.
What you'll need for this trick is a piece of rope - actually, two pieces of rope. So
let me untie this and show you what I've done, it's the preparation. Now here, you'll notice
that I have a piece of tape here. Actually you would use glue, maybe clear tape would work.
In the demo section, I just used just used clear tape but glue typically is better. You would glue
a single length of rope together at its end and I happen to be using bright green
duct tape which makes it easier for you to see. But this is where the rope is connected . It's
just one piece of rope. Then you take a shorter piece of rope and you tie it around
the longer rope. So the idea is when you come out
with a rope like this it looks as if you have one length of rope that's tied here
with a knot. What you really have is a length of rope that starts here goes up here and comes back
down with a fake knot here. So I think in the demo this is the way started. I started it like this.
Sometimes it's difficult to hide this join here and so with glue or tape sometimes it's a little
obvious. Sometimes, if you cut the rope correctly and glue it together and take your time, it's hard
to see. So I think i started it like this. So i just tried to naturally hold it and then all I
did was take the knot and place it on the bottom like this. I then brought out scissors - you're
going to need scissors along with your two ropes. And then what you're going to do is
right where you glued the ropes together - one rope together - you're just going to cut through.
Just like that. Now to spectators it looks as if you have just cut
the middle of the rope when in reality the middle of the rope is here.
Now in the presentation I just played around with the idea that I tried to do the magic and all that
and then when I unveiled the rope nothing had happened. And I think that's a good ploy
when doing this trick is that it looks like you failed. But then next time... Here's what you do.
You grab the rope in your left hand - I'm right-handed. And then as you wind the rope around
you know this knot slides. So what you do is as you wind the rope around,
when you get to the knot, you actually take the knot into your hand and you just keep
winding the rope around now. This time, remember the second time, it looks as if the knot is in
here but it's actually in my hand. I reached into my pocket looking for some magic pixie dust
then I left the knot in the pocket. Came out and sprinkled on top - waveing the hand
snapping the fingers. And now the magic happens. And the rope appears to be fully restored.